Matthias Brändle

Matthias Brändle

Brändle at the 2013 Tour de Romandie
Personal information
Full name Matthias Brändle
Born (1989-12-07) 7 December 1989
Hohenems, Austria
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 77 kg (170 lb)
Team information
Current team Trek–Segafredo
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Time-trialist
Professional team(s)
2008 Team Ista
2009 Elk Haus
2010–2011 Footon–Servetto–Fuji
2012 Team NetApp
2013–2016 IAM Cycling[1]
2017– Trek–Segafredo
Major wins

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2016)
National Time Trial Championships (2009, 2013, 2014, 2016)

Matthias Brändle (born 7 December 1989) is an Austrian professional road bicycle racer for UCI WorldTeam Trek–Segafredo.

Career

In 2012, he rode for Team NetApp.[2] He was the 2009, 2013 and 2014 Austrian National Time Trial Champion and won two consecutive stages of the 2014 Tour of Britain.[3]

In October 2014, he followed in the footsteps of his agent Tony Rominger by setting a new hour record, breaking the month-old record set by 43-year-old Jens Voigt under new regulations introduced by the UCI in June 2014 allowing the use of modern track pursuit racing bicycles.[4][5][6] The record stood until 8 February 2015 when it was broken by Australian rider Rohan Dennis.[7]

He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France.[8] He won the Austrian National Road Race Championships in 2016.[9]

Career achievements

Major results

2007
1st Overall Trofeo Karlsberg
1st Stage 1
1st Overall Tour de Haute-Autriche
1st Stages 2 & 3
2008
2nd Overall Tour de Berlin
3rd Züri-Metzgete
7th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
9th Overall Cinturón a Mallorca
10th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
2009
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
3rd Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23
5th Overall Tour of Hainan
5th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
5th Rund um Köln
9th Road race, UCI Road World Under–23 Championships
2010
1st GP Judendorf–Strassengel
8th Overall Tour de Langkawi
2011
1st Sprints classification Tour de Romandie
2012
1st Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
1st Stage 2b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
5th Giro dell'Appennino
9th Rund um Köln
2013
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Sprints classification Tour de Romandie
1st Mountains classification Tour de l'Ain
1st Tour du Jura
2nd Polynormande
4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
1st Young rider classification
4th Cholet-Pays de Loire
4th Tour de Berne
2014
World Hour record: 51.852 km
National Road Championships
1st Time trial
4th Road race
Tour of Britain
1st Stages 5 & 6
1st Tour de Berne
5th Overall Tour of Belgium
10th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
2015
1st Stage 6 Tour of Oman
1st Prologue Tour of Belgium
4th Overall Tour de l'Eurométropole
2016
National Road Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
2017
1st Stage 3 (ITT) Tour of Belgium
2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne
4th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 90 111 DNF
A yellow jersey Tour de France 156
A red jersey Vuelta a España 155
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. "IAM Cycling announces 2013 roster". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 20 September 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  2. Stokes, Shane (28 November 2011). "Matthias Brändle leaves Geox TMC for NetApp". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
  3. "Brändle claims second successive win at Tour of Britain". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  4. "'Now or never' as Brändle tackles Voigt's Hour Record". cyclingnews.com. 30 October 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  5. "Brändle breaks Voigt's hour record". cyclingnews.com. 30 October 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  6. "Austria's Matthias Brändle sets a new hour record of 51.85 kilometres". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  7. "Rohan Dennis sets new Hour Record". cyclingnews.com. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  8. "2015 Tour de France start list". Velo News. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  9. "National Championship, Road, Elite, Austria (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
Records
Preceded by
Jens Voigt
UCI hour record (51.852 km)
30 October 2014 – 8 February 2015
Succeeded by
Rohan Dennis
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